Donne and the resources of kind
By: edited by A.D. Cousins and Damian Grace.
Contributors: Cousins, A. D., 1950-; Grace, Damian.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses; Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Madison; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Literary form -- History -- 17th century.
Description: "Donne and the Resources of Kind is the first book about Donne's writings to focus primarily on their relations to genre. Using historicist approaches to his work, the contributors study Donne's extreme self-consciousness in choosing and deploying genre, his various and calculated pursuit of distinctiveness when engaging with generic convention.

Thus they suggest how his drawing on the resources of kind illuminates at once his own writings and their interactions with those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. They suggest as well what his dealings with genre imply about his dealings with social and political authority in his world - for example, about his dealings with the courtly world and its ideologies, with specific patrons, with religious doctrine and controversy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Donne and the Resources of Kind 9; title: A. D. COUSINS; title: Donne, Decorum, and Truth: Grounds of His Literary Art 24; title: EARL MINER; title: Mannerist Donne: Showing Art in the; title: Descriptive Verse Epistles and the Elegies 40; title: L. E. SEMLER; title: Donne's Elegies and the Ugly Beauty Tradition 59; title: HEATHER DUBROW; title: To "build in sonnets pretty roomes?": Donne and; title: the Renaissance Love Lyric 71; title: N. H. KEEBLE; title: The Holy Sonnets 87; title: F. W. BROWNLOW; title: Gender, Genre, and the Idea of John Donne in the Anniversaries 106; title: MAREA MITCHELL; title: Donne the Snake-Handler 120; title: EUGENE D. HILL; title: Recent Genre Criticism of the Works of John Donne 138; title: DAMIAN GRACE.